Media Advisories

U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana will deliver the keynote address at 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at the School Readiness Conference 2010: Ready for School, Ready for Life in Burbank, Calif.

Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, John S. Wilson, executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Alberto Retana, the U.S. Department of Education’s director of...

Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for the Office of Postsecondary Education, will discuss postsecondary student success at 12:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the national Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) meeting in Louisville, Ky. The event will take place at the Brown Hotel in...

Sue Swenson, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Education Programs, will give remarks at the 29th anniversary dinner of the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, in Roseville, Minn. Swenson will discuss emerging issues for centers of independent...

Dr. Alexa Posny, assistant secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, will address the 26th Annual Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson Conference Wednesday in Rosemont, Ill. The Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson provides standards-based teacher certification...

Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier, assistant secretary for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will moderate a panel discussion at the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Fall Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 27 in Linthicum, Md.

U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana will keynote the Otelia Cromwell Day Symposium, “Structural Inequality and Disparities in Education” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will hold a national press conference call at 1:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, announcing guidance to schools on handling bullying and discriminatory harassment. Secretary Duncan will be joined on the call by White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody...